Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

As you lie before me now, like a shadow

 On a pea green sea

 Never thought that I could find you so hollow

 Laying into me

But this cup of wine

 All salt and brine makes me sleepy

 A sorrow so

 A field of tears, that will never yield a single penny

 But I don't know

 I've got nothing to hold on to

Wished for gold so I could buy you a palace

 By the riverside

 You'd come in and I would fill your diamond chalice

 You were still alive

But this cup of wine

 All salt and brine makes me sleepy

 A sorrow so

 A field of tears, that will never yield a single penny

 But I don't know

 I've got nothing to hold on to

 I've got nothing to hold on to

 Were you sleepless, tearing at the air?

 Was the water everywhere?

 Were you fretful, to wade into the room?

 I'd been wanting to hear from you

Oh, no

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Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (oh)

You're weary, lay him down

 You did your time so thank you very much

Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (oh)

So now your hopes are all laid

 But you hand it all away

Did his eyelids fix on empty chairs

 You had traveled to lay beside?

 A gentle torture to watch it all recede

 And all the while your mother slept beside him

 Oh, no

Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (oh)

You're weary, lay him down

 You did your time so thank you very much

Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (oh)

So now your hopes are all laid

 But you hand it all away

 Were you sleepless, tearing at the air?

 Was the water everywhere?

 Were you fearful, and long to run away

 From the cold clasp of Illinois?

Oh, no

Oh, No

Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (ooooooh)

You're weary, lay him down

 You did your time so thank you very much

Hand it over (hand it over)

Hand it over (oh)

So now your hopes are all laid

 But you hand it all away

 But you hand it all away

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh